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1948
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480 FLIGHT APRIL 29TH, 1948 Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements SERVICE Anglo-French Air PactM ARSHAL OF THE R.A.F. LORDTEDDER, Chief of the Air Staff, and M. Bidault, the French ForeignMinister, signed an Anglo-French Mili- tary Air Transit Agreement in Paris onApril 19th. The agreement covers flying by military aircraft over both countriesand their servicing at R.A.F. and French airfields. Scottish Visit TV/TAJOR-GENERAL .C L. BISSELL,J-'JL Military and Air Attache at the American Embassy, London, visitedDyce Airport, Aberdeen, on April nth in a United States Dakota. When .askedthe reason for his visit he replied: "I want to see the north of Scotland fromthe air." Following lunch in the R.A.F. officers'mess he took off on the next stage of his flight north, escorted for part of theway by five Spitfires of No. 612 (County of Aberdeen) Squadron, R.Aux.A.F. New Director of EquipmentA FTER having been Senior EquipmentStaff Officer at Headquarters, Air Command, Far East, since October, 1945,G/C. Geoffrey Luis Worthington, C.B.E., has recently returned to the UnitedKingdom to become Director of Equip- ment (B) at the Air Ministry, where hehas already taken up his new duties, with the acting rank of Air Commodore. AsDirector of Equipment (B) he is now responsible, under the Director-General ofEquipment, for supplying most of the things that concern the comfort of lifein the Royal Air Force—clothing, food, and the furnishing and heating of AirForce stations and married quarters—as well as for radio and transport equip-ment. Air Cdre. Worthington attended theRoyal Air Force College, Cranwell, from •which he was commissioned in theGeneral Duties Branch of the R.A.F. in August, 1923. He transferred to theEquipment" Branch in 1926, and after service in India from 1927 to 1933, nereturned to the United Kingdom for a R.A.F. Staff College course. After twoyears at the Air Ministry, in the Direc- torate of Equipment, he returned toIndia in 1937. In 1939 he was appointed to Maintenance Command headquarters.Later he commanded No. 16 Maintenance Unit and at the end of 1943 joined theheadquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, as Deputy Air Officer inCharge of Administration, later becom- ing an Assistant Chief of Staff at SupremeHeadquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forc«, SEAFIRES : Vickers-Supermarine Seafire naval fighters pick up fo _^ setting out on a strike as part of the RA.F.-Navy exercises, now concluded. ' Flight " photograph. i/on over Ford R.A.F. Regatta THE Regatta of the R.A.F. RowingClub will be held in conjunction •with the Kingston Rowing Club atKingston-on-Thames on Whit-Saturday, May 15th. Entries should be sent to theSecretary, F/L. R. E. Linley, Head- quarters, No. 3 Group, R.A.F. Milden-hall, Suffolk. -' Appointments THE Air Ministry announces theappointment of Air Vice-Marshal Harold Thomas Lydford, C.B., C.B.E.,A.F.C., as Commandant-General of the Royal Air Force Regiment and Inspectorof Ground Combat Training, with effect from June 30th next. Air Vice-Marshal Lydford, who is thefirst R.A.F. officer to receive this ap- pointment—it has hitherto been held bya major-general on loan from the Army •—was born in London on May 7, 1898.He has-been Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Aden, since March,1945, and was previously A.O.C. No. 28 Group, Technical Training Command,from September, 1944, after having been for two years -with the Royal AirForce Delegation in Washington. From 1938 to 1942 he was at the Air Ministry,in the Directorate of Organization, be- coming Director of Organization in 1941. Announcement is also, made of theforthcoming appointment, in May, of A. V-M. G. E. Gibbs, C.I.E., C.B.E.,M.C., as Royal Air Force Member of the Military Staff Committee, United NationsOrganization, New York, in place of Air Chief Marshal Sir A. Guy R. GarrodC.B.E., K.C.B., M.C., D.F.C., LL.D., who will retire from the active list oncompleting his tour of duty in this post. A. V-M. Gibbs has been Senior AirStaff Officer, Transport Command, since August, 1946. He was S.A.S.O. of No.11 Group, Fighter Command, during the Battle of Britain, and later becameDirector of Overseas Operations at the Air Ministry, a post he held from April,1942, until he went to South-East Asia Air Command as Director of Special AirStaff Plans in December, 1943. Soon afterwards he was appointed S.A.S.O. ofthe 3rd Tactical Air Force, operating in Burma. A year later he becameS.A.S.O. of R.A.F., Bengal, at that time also in Burma, and subsequently, aftera short period as A.O.C. No. 233 Group, he went to Supreme Allied Headquarters,South-East Asia, in April, 1945. as Deputy Chief of Staff (Air), remainingin this post until April, 1946. R.A.F. in the Royal Tournament AT this year's Royal Tournament,which will open on June 10th, in the presence of the King and Queen, theR.A.F. will provide a spectacular demon- stration of its role in support of the landforces. About 190 officers and men of the R.A.F. and the R.A.F. Regimentwill '' attack '' and clear a forward area in jungle country and put down a land-ing strip for use by a fighter squadron. Most of the equipment used in actualoperations of this kind will be brought into play. Ground-to-air radio commu-nications will be relayed through loud- speakers to the audience. There will bea demonstration of how a Hastings drops equipment and supplies by parachute. AHamilcar glider will disgorge its load oi men, guns and ammunition and theFighter Squadron Commander will " arrive " in a jet fighter. The show is provided by. R.A.F.Transport Command, with the approval and support of the Air Council. The con-siderable technical details involved in a production of this kind are in the handsof the Commanding Officer and staff of the Transport Commaad DevelopmentUnit at R.A.F. Station, Brize Norton. Other R.A.F. items will be provided
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